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Reproducing Our Way to Extinction

de infopub · Publicat 14 septembrie 2022 · Actualizat 14 septembrie 2022

Lately, I have seen the documentary „Eating Our Way to Extinction„. I think the documentary is pointing out some of the real problems the earth has, but it misses the major problem. This documentary still doesn’t get to the bottom of the main problem, the growth of the human population. A better documentary it should be called „Reproducing Our Way to Extinction„.

The plant-based food salvation

The plant-based food, presented as a way out of the path of self-extinction, just delays it by a few decades. Let’s say, tomorrow all humankind becomes vegetarian, what happens with the current growth of population after just a few decades? Where are we going to grow all these plants? Without genetic modification and the use of chemicals, are we able to grow sufficient plant-based food? If we can do this, and we will be able to grow plants in a sustainable way without cutting our forests, we are going to start measuring with special cameras our own emissions of methane and nitrous oxide, as we do now with cows and sheep.

What’s the real problem?

Let’s face it, not our food choice is the real problem. The real problem is that we are still living like a basic life form. Our main purpose is still the reproduction and the multiplication of our specie. At the current rate of our reproduction, soon we will kick out all the living forms on earth. We would be so many on earth that we would not have any space left for other wild beings. Besides the accelerated human reproduction registered in the last decades, it is also recorded an accelerated earth loss, due to sea level increase, a result of the melting ice, and the growth of arid surfaces, as a result of an increase in the earth’s temperature.

Reproducing Our Way to Extinction. There is any solution?

Of course, there is. First, we should decide if we still consider ourselves a „superior specie” at the top of the food chain, with the solely main purpose of reproduction, dominating and exploiting other species, or if we are something beyond that, a superior life form.
I believe, we have surpassed the basic living being thousands of years ago when we started to think. As long as we cannot surpass the basic function of our ancient part of the brain, which controls the animalistic part of our body, there is nothing to do.

I believe, a policy for birth control, or any other way of controlling human growth, combined with plant-based food, or any new other sustainable types of food, other than eating other species, is the only solution.
In the end, if we do nothing, the only real positive impact on the planet will be made by diseases, food and water scarcity, wars, and natural disasters. The only hope left for us is to be smart enough to not use nukes, so we can still leave some livable places for the surviving.

Can any solution be implemented?

Most countries are still ruled by 18, 19, and 20th-century ideologies. Most countries still push and subsidize raising at least 2 kids for a sustainable pension fund. Can you believe that? How the development of a country, at the peak of industrial robotization, is based solely on population growth needed for the workforce and for the pension funds?

Any solution that we can find, will be impossible to implement worldwide to make a difference. This is because of the lack of a worldwide government that can make decisions for the whole planet. As long as there are different governments that decide only for their benefit, and not for the entire planet, no real solution can be implemented, only by the use of force. Some current ideologies should be rethought because are tearing apart the earth for the benefit of a few.

The process of extinction already started!

Below you can watch the documentary „Eating Our Way to Extinction„.